Radical Hope
Subtitle: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: April 15, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780674027466
Subjects: Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - Tribes; Movements - Psychoanalysis; Philosophy / General; General; Philosophy
Description: "Shortly before he died, Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation, told his story - up to a certain point. "When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground," he said, "and they could not lift them up again. After this nothing happened." It is precisely this point - that of a people faced with the end of their way of life - that prompts the philosophical and ethical inquiry pursued in Radical Hope. In Jonathan Lear's view, Plenty Coups's story raises a profound ethical question that transcends his time and challenges us all: how should one face the possibility that one's culture might collapse?"--Jacket.